Thank you, @McMaster Iron Co.! We're glad you enjoyed the video. Please let us know if we can ever help you in any other way. We appreciate your viewership and support.

I've heard of that, but never done it. So you get tonnage and multiply times what? Does the number you multiply that tonnage change from project to project? Thank you.

@@aest1524 -For material, multiplied by cost of material per weight. -Fabrication, I dont know where they get the value, maybe from their experience because as of still now i dont know how they price fabrication. I know there are lots of factors in costing fabrication but here in our company they dont share how they change it depending of what project we cost and ofcoure our production manager is sucks at monitoring projects and no documentation. -Painting, paint material will base on surface area,and for labour it will depends on the material needed to paint. Small and mobile project cost less in labors paint. Big and heavy alot of work to be done before painting will cost high ofcourse. -HDG, we just multiply it by cost per weight. compny doing HDG, price us base on weight. -transport, that will depends on how the material will be care of and the location. -Installation. this one i have less knowledge as i dont have much experience and not doing site job so I cant estimate how many person will be involved and ofcoure our production manager dont have documentation for this. if only he had this info, maybe I can. -Design, this one is covered in Overhead. some instanced we made separate price if the design if complicated.

Thank you, @Sunyrayman123 I appreciate your support! Please let me know if I can help you in any way. [email protected]

@Sunyrayman123 thank you for watching and your kind words! I am currently using the latest edition of Bluebeam (20.2.60). That may not have been the exact edition at the time of recording this video, but all the same features shown in the video are still available. The Excel version used is from the MS Office suite 2019. The exported CSV (Comma Separated Values) file format works on any Excel version, the formulae and the macros that I have developed will not however (but that's a whole other subject). Feel free to shoot me an email if you should have any other questions! Thank you for your support [email protected]

@@spcgroup1076 Thank you. I suspect I will contact you after I see more of your videos...For pertinent questions..

@ Marc Sanchez, yes! In addition to the videos published on this channel, SPC Group has also offered courses and webinars! We try to meet your need, when are where you're available. Please visit www.steelpcgroup.com/education to learn more; or feel free to reach out any time [email protected]

@Max Versluis that is an excellent suggestion! I would have to agree; bookmarking the different plan sets would also be a great way to quickly separate them without segregating the Construction Documents.

@Dylen Hesseling, thank you for reaching out. Typically an RFQ (Request for Quote) or RFP (Request For Proposal) will specify the SOW (Scope Of Work) being requested that you bid. If ever in doubt, contact your client to discuss what their needs and expectations are. If you're bidding to multiple clients pursuing the same project, you may need to have this conversation with each one, so that "scope gaps" aren't later identified in a buyout meeting, or having your bid rejected/disqualified. If you're bidding either just the fabrication or just the install and you're trying to determine who's responsible for supplying what, I'd refer you to AISC 303 - Code of Standard Practice; specifically Section 7. ERECTION, Subsections 7.8 Field Connection Material and 7.10 Temporary Support of Structural Steel Frames which have a lot to say about this matter. If you ever have any questions or are looking for some help, please let us know by emailing [email protected]

@@spcgroup1076 thank so much for the response.

Thanks @RyanMatus. Let us know if you ever have anything we can help you out with 👍

Sarid, send me an email. I think I can help you out! [email protected]

@@spcgroup1076 can you also help with creating the tool set!! I would appreciate your help!

@@-SHOPVILLAIN send me an email at [email protected] I'll gladly help you out!

Ronny, let us know if you have any questions or if there's ever anything that we can help you with! We're here to help the industry by helping you.

There are several options for takeoffs, and they're not all created equal. Especially with the different designs that you can see from all different regions, you need a system that allows you to be flexible yet accurate on each project. Bluebeam takeoffs, I believe, is the best platform for that. It's simply the digital version of paper takeoffs, and the information or metrics you gather from it can be more easily tailored to the project and/or your company's standards.

Let us know if you have any questions - we want them all! We're here to help you, that's our only goal with what we do!

@Jam Cas, thank you! be sure to subscribe and/or become a Member at www.steelpcgroup.com/membership to get all of the updates ;)

@elchayan93 Thank you for the feedback, our only aim here is to help! Absolutely, as a Project and Executive Manager I can certainly tell you what mattered to me and what we received from Detailers. I'll start with the easiest - insurance. Professional Liability Insurance (formerly called Errors and Omissions) is truly the only insurance coverage that will matter to your customers. In the event that a detailing mistake causes a costly mishap on the project, your customers will be looking to you to pay or make up for it; sometimes this can be very expensive. There's an imbalance between the cost of detailing services and the value or potential impact on the job (i.e. your contract might be for $10,000, but a single mistake might cost $100,000). Professional Liability Insurance will cover the costs for your mistakes. Conveniently, E&O is a "claims based" insurance policy, meaning that you'll be covered so long as you have a policy (including costs for mistakes made prior to having your insurance policy - sweet!). Next is the paperwork process, which is fairly simple. The actual job process will be 1) submittal [for review] 3) approved drawings [shop and field] 4) change[s] orders. Each of these processes are typically billed separately, thus giving you your billing schedule. I will note that schedule is typical, but some do it differently. Another "typical" example is that submittal invoices are usually around 20%-30% of contract value and the approved drawing package makes the rest (change orders are billed specific to each). DON'T FORGET RETENTION (usually 10%)!!! Your quotes and contracts should state what your hourly billing rate will be for re-work and change orders as well. As for bidding, as with all contracting, it's typically "a whore's market" meaning that the cheapest wins the day. Overtime customers will come to value quality, and may work with you exclusively because you actually save them money by reducing errors, but getting your foot in that door can be hard and certainly takes time. I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, please let me know. Feel free to email me at [email protected] also MEMBERSHIP IS FREE, so don't be shy to join ;)

@@spcgroup1076 Awesome! Thanks for the help. Signing up today to your site. I will definitely be contacting you with more questions here soon.

I guess Im randomly asking but does someone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I would love any help you can give me!

@Gannon Ben instablaster =)

@Colin Brandon thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

Brian, that's what we're here for! What exactly are you needing help with? Or, feel free to send an email to [email protected] for more information about our training and services.

We've been getting a lot of requests to show the Bluebeam profile development. We're definitely working on bringing that to you!

Seth, excellent question; thank you! I've actually created my own custom tool set which contains (almost) all of the available steel shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, Bluebeam does not yet provide a tool set with this information, so I had to develop it myself.

@@spcgroup1076 I would be very interested in seeing a short video on how you made that tool set. Currently, I have been using Bluebeam just for highlights and inputting my takeoff directly into Tekla EPM. However, our estimating department is looking to see if we can use Bluebeam to do our takeoffs and import the Bluebeam excel table into Tekla EPM where we can make our final tweaks. Learning how to make a toolset like yours would be a great first step.

@@TheNoob2Tube I'd be glad to help you out! I was planning on doing an entire training block on Bluebeam for the month of October, but I won't make you wait that long ;) Send me an email at [email protected] to discuss this further. The Bluebeam profile which I've created (and the toolsets included) were specifically designed to work with Fabsuite (now a part of Tekla Powerfab) and produce a CSV which can be directly imported in. I think I could be of great help to you and your company's estimating department.

@@spcgroup1076 is there a way i can buy the tool set from you?